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This is a gloriously odd film, and has a really unabashed feel about it â which makes it inadvertently feel real and true, and even more haunting.
The landscape is laid out from the start, as we meet two scrappily dressed men in frozen conditions, who are throwing a dead body, found rotting on a wintry pavement, into the back of an already-full van.
Set in a near future, in an Europe that is a pale imitation of its past, this is a scary-looking premonition of a broken world.
We then are launched into the dreamlike and surreal atmosphere that pervades throughout. Body collector K (Johann Myers) tells his colleague Z (Geza Rohrig) about a strange dream haunting him.
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Battleship grey buildings, skies and uniforms overwhelm the opening minutes of Undergods as two men go about their job of collecting bodies in a destitute landscape of hollowed out abodes and apartments. Striking up a conversation the film shifts to a couple in a plain flat presumably not too far away from the aforementioned ‘dead zone’. It’s a smooth segue (as they all are) in this very original and disturbing debut feature from Chino Moya.
Ruth (Hayley Carmichael) and Ron (Michael Gould) are called on by Harry (Ned Dennehy) who says he can’t get into his flat on another floor. He slowly worms his way into the couple’s lives taking liberties along the way, reaching a conclusion that leads a father and daughter. The former a storyteller of a strange tale about a merchant (Eric Godon), an engineer (Jan Bijvoet) with an idea to sell, the merchant’s daughter (Tanya Reynolds) loved by her father and her lover Johann (Tadgh Murphy) leading an unusual conclusion